sanus

sanus

1. conditional of sani

From Proto-Indo-European *swā-n- (“healthy; whole; active; vigorous”). Akin to Ancient Greek σῶς (sôs), Dutch zoen (“kiss”) and gezond (“healthy”), German Sühne (“atonement”) and gesund (“healthy”). According to Alberto Nocentini only with Italic cognates.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.nus/, [ˈsaː.nʊs]

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sānus (feminine sāna, neuter sānum); first/second declension

1. sound in body, healthy
2. sound in mind, sane
3. (of style) correct, sensible, sober, chaste

First/second declension.

• salvus
• vērus

• “sano” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
• sanus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sanus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • sound, unimpaired senses: sensus sani, integri, incorrupti
    
  • to be of sound mind: sanae mentis esse
    
  • are you in your right mind: satin (= satisne) sanus es?
    
  • (ambiguous) but this is not to the point: sed hoc nihil (sane) ad rem
    
• “sano” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN